Published July 22, 2025 | Version v1
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Curvinomia iridescens

Description

Curvinomia iridescens (Smith, 1857)

Nomia iridescens Smith, 1857:43. Lectotype ♀, Shillong – OUMNH.

Distribution in India. Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal (Pauly, 2009; Saini & Rathor, 2012; Pannure & Belavadi, 2017; Manjusha & Jobiraj, 2018; Prakash et al., 2020; Majumder et al., 2024; Ascher & Pickering, 2025).

General distribution. Afrotropical - Guinea-Bissau Saint; Australasian - Australia (Macquarie Island); Nearctic - Pierre and Miquelon; Oriental - Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Macau, Myanmar, Negros, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam (Pauly, 2009; Ascher & Pickering, 2025).

Floral association. Unknown.

Notes

Published as part of Athul, Cherodath Sankar, Vishnu, Azhakath Viswambharan, Prakash, Anju Sara, Bijoy, Chenthamarakshan & Shaji, Edappilly Mathew, 2025, A checklist of Nomiinae (Hymenoptera, Halictidae) from Kerala, India: new distributional and floral association records, pp. 601-623 in Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 11 (3) on page 606, DOI: 10.61186/jibs.11.3.601, http://zenodo.org/record/17024893

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
OUMNH
Scientific name authorship
Smith
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Halictidae
Genus
Curvinomia
Species
iridescens
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Curvinomia iridescens (Smith, 1857) sec. Athul, Vishnu, Prakash, Bijoy & Shaji, 2025

References

  • Smith, F. (1857) Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnen Society of London, Zoology, 2 (6), 42-130. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1857.tb01759.x
  • Pauly, A. (2009) Classification des Nomiinae de la Region Orientale, de Nouvelle-Guinee et des iles de l'Ocean Pacifique (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae). Bulletin de l'Institute Royal Des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 79, 151-229.
  • Saini, M. S. & Rathor, V. S. (2012) A species checklist of family Halictidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) along with keys to its subfamilies, genera & subgenera from India. International Journal of Environmental Sciences, 3 (1), 134-166.
  • Pannure, A. & Belavadi, V. V. (2017) An updated distributional checklist of Bees of the subfamily Nomiinae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) with new records from south India. Entomon, 42 (4), 311-328.
  • Manjusha, K. T. & Jobiraj, T. (2018) New record of Leuconomia brevipes from India with a checklist of Nominid bees (Apoidea: Halictidae; Nomiinae) from Kerala. Journal of Experimental Zoology India, 21 (2), 897-900.
  • Prakash, A. S., Jobiraj, T. & Bijoy, C. (2020) A checklist of bees (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Kerala. Entomon, 45 (3), 189-200. https://doi.org/10.33307/entomon.v45i3.550
  • Majumder, B., Nath, R., Kazmi, S. I., Senapati, S. K. & Rameshkumar, A. (2024) Checklist of Nomiinae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) from West Bengal, India with new records. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 10 (4), 703-717. https://doi.org/10.61186/jibs.10.4.703
  • Ascher, J. S. & Pickering, J. (2025) Discover Life Bee Species Guide and World Checklist Website. https://www.discoverlife.org/%20 [Accessed 25 th September 2024]